See NOTES for details
--Most of these appear elsewhere in the Archive, but here they are, all together (plus a few new ones) -- all with new transfers and higher bit rates.
F. Reeder
Notes
OVERTURES - Recorded 1926 - 1947
John Barbirolli (1899-1970)
BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm Set X-200
Recorded November 16, 1940
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961)
ROSSINI: La Gazza Ladra – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 68301-D
Recorded in 1934
WEBER: Der Freischütz – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 68986-D
Recorded in 1936
WEBER: Oberon – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 69410
Recorded in 1937
SUPPE: Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 71439-D
Recorded in 1939
MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 11-9191
Recorded in 1946
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Rosario Bourdon (1885-1961)
ROSSINI: William Tell – Overture
Victor Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm discs 20606, 20607
Recorded July 15, 1926
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954)
WAGNER: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act I
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Brunswick 78rpm disc 90231 (1085, 1086)
Recorded in 1931
BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Brunswick 78rpm disc 90250
Recorded in November, 1933
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Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)
SMETANA: The Bartered Bride – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 7314 (AX 6995, 6996)
Recorded in 1930
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Paul van Kempen (1893-1955)
BEETHOVEN: The Creatures of Prometheus – Overture
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 78rpm Album DGS 1
Recorded July 7, 1941
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Karl Krueger (1894-1979)
OFFENBACH: Orpheus in Hades – Overture
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 11-8761
Recorded in 1945
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Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951)
BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 7291
Recorded January 14, 1930, at Liederkranz Hall in New York
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960)
BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture
Minneapolis Symphony
Columbia 78rpm disc 11175-D (XCO 25820, 25821)
Recorded January 10, 1940
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Josef Pasternack (1881-1940)
SUPPÉ: Poet and Peasant – Overture
Victor Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 35797
Recorded July 14-15, 1926
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Percy Pitt (1870-1932)
BALFE: The Bohemian Girl – Overture
B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 9160 (AX 1501-2)
Recorded in 1926
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Fritz Reiner (1888-1963)
WAGNER: Die Meistersinger – Prelude
WAGNER: Parsifal - Prelude
Anonymous symphony orchestra
78rpm discs mx. CS 028843 - CS 028848 (SR-11, SR-12, SR-13)
Recorded in Carnegie Hall, New York, November 22, 1938
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Artur Rodzinski (1892-1958)
MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream – Overture
Cleveland Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm Set MM-504
Recorded December 28, 1941
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Nikolai Sokoloff (1886-1965)
NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor – Overture
Cleveland Orchestra
Brunswick 78rpm disc 50089-A (UK Pressing)
Recorded in May, 1927
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Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957)
ROSSINI: Barber of Seville – Overture
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 7255-A; 7255-B
Recorded November 21, 1929
WAGNER: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
WAGNER: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Victor 78rpm Album DM 308
Recorded April 9, 1936
MOZART: The Magic Flute – Overture
B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm disc 15190
Recorded June 2, 1938, Queen's Hall
SCHUMANN: Overture to Manfred
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm Album 1287
Recorded November 11, 1946
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Consecration of the House
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Victor 78rpm Album DM 1287
Recorded March 16, 1947
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Bruno Walter (1876-1962)
MOZART: The Magic Flute – Overture
Mozart Festival Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 67660-D
Recorded June 14 or 19, 1928; Paris
J. STRAUSS: The Gypsy Baron – Overture
orchestra uncredited
Columbia 78rpm disc 9083-M (AX-4932, 4933)
Recorded in 1929, London
J. STRAUSS: Die Fledermaus – Overture
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 9080-M (AX 4576, 4577)
Recorded in January, 1929
MOZART: Cosi fan Tutti – Overture
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 12074-D (XCO 34188)
Recorded January 23, 1945, Carnegie Hall
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Felix Weingartner (1863-1942)
BEETHOVEN: The Creatures of Prometheus – Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 71533-D (AX 7017)
Recorded February 14, 1938
WAGNER: Tannhäuser: Act III, Introduction
Paris Conservatory Orchestra
Columbia 78rpm disc 69793-D (CLX 2165, -6)
Recorded May 12, 1939
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Frieder Weismann (1894-1984)
FLOTOW: Martha – Overture
Orchestra uncredited
Columbia 78rpm disc Viva-Tonal G-50296-D (2-20100, 20101)
Recorded in 1930